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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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There is no friend as loyal as a book. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

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I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books. ↗

— Bess Truman

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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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